Netlify recently changed their pricing structure, so if you are using Netlify CMS (or just Netlify Identity) with a private repo, every contributor to the repository (committer) will be charged as full pro seat. This can get really expensive if you have a few users working with the CMS (and thus committing content to the repository). We will move a few pages from Netlify now because of this change.
Also, found out the hard way that "Enterprise" pricing (i.e. call us and we'll charge you an opaque amount based on whatever we think you can afford pricing) starts at 7 users.
Vercel is not much better at 10 users, and they hide it deep within their pricing table behind a tooltip so you're not likely to realize this until it's too late.
Cloudflare Pages doesn't charge per user but limits concurrent builds which can get really painful.
I honestly can't find a good option in this space anymore... What happened?
> I honestly can't find a good option in this space anymore... What happened?
They took lots of VC money, got crazy valuations and picked up a few enterprise customers as the JamStack trend grew - and now have to try to generate a return.
You missed the point. Many businesses only need revenue (or EBITDA) to exceed expenses and you're profitable. Once you take VC money, you must exceed profitability and provide a return on VC money. Not all businesses must make a return on outside investment because they did not take outside investment.
Assuming that 7-10 users are FTE, the company is already spending more than $1M on salary and related costs. I imagine the annual Enterprise pricing for Vercel for that numbers of users would hover around 1/4 of an FTE's salary, which is reasonable considering the value provided.
The increase in value provided by these services is very much linear w.r.t. number of users. The 10x+ leap in cost with enterprise pricing is not at all justified by additional value provided.
I don't mind paying a fair, pre-disclosed price for services that provide value. I do mind opaque enterprise sales tactics that try to take full percentage points off my available runway for no discernable increase in value when I try to add one more user. Doubly so when they go to such lengths to cover it up as Vercel is currently doing.
Add me to the list of voices who are highly skeptical about Vercel.
I recall watching a video on their YouTube account a few months ago where their head of devrel tried to interview a famous personality from the “cloud native” community (Kelsey Hightower) as a way to introduce their “edge functions” nonsense.
The entire thing was a train wreck from about ten minutes in when he started asking questions about how it actually worked and what kind of trade offs it would imply.
I remember they had to do a bunch of obvious hard cuts presumably to remove the more embarrassing stuff and it always stood out as a snake oil company to me ever since then.
The fact that they also seem to rely on deceptive pricing and dark patterns for sales seems very on brand with what I recall thinking about them at the time.
I’m sorry you feel this way. I personally enjoyed the interview quite a bit (Kelsey is very knowledgeable about both the past and present of computing).
Yeah, because enterprise pricing is so nefarious. It's fine if having to negotiate a contract intimidates you, but there's nothing sinister in it. It's not possible to offer a simple tiered pricing plan that can accommodate every enterprise customer and their usage requirements. Maybe companies A and B have the same number of users, but B consumes 10x the bandwidth. Should B be paying more than A?
Companies can't stay in business if it costs more to service the business than the revenues coming in.
> Yeah, because enterprise pricing is so nefarious.
The cover up I was referring to was the 10 user limit before Enterprise pricing gets applied, hidden behind a tooltip deep in their pricing grid.
I thought it was obvious given that every one of these companies have enterprise pricing and advertise it front and center, but only Vercel hides the user limit. Assuming your post is in good faith and not a deliberate strawman, I concede that I could have been more specific.
You can use CF Pages with your own build infrastructure, it has "direct uploads" now. It's currently unlimited in the amount of deploys you can do a month. I don't think CF knows how to price it yet, so I wouldn't rely on this being free forever.
That's good to know! Would be nice to hear from someone from CF on how they plan on monetizing these "direct uploads" before we start investing in a migration.
After years of pain, I was also diagnosed with TOS. I will not go for surgery however, as this can make things more complicated. A split keyboard (I got the moonlander some months ago) did have a little effect for me, however not a huge one I was hoping for. I'm trying/doing a lot of posture related exercises. Some days its better, some days its hard to get through the work day. Would appreciate any hints which made things better for others with TOS and a desk job. It's a constant trial & error with ups and downs here.
I would definitely recommend a sit-stand desk. Variation is key. Try to figure out if holding your shoulders up or down makes things worse and adjust your arm support accordingly. A good desk chair can help, with adjustable or removable arm support. You can try out different ergonomic keyboards or mice, but that can get pretty expensive, with no guaranteed results (and lots of frustration). Look on eBay for used ones or find a vendor with an extended return policy.
Take enough breaks, no matter what. Take a walk, no matter how short. Get the blood and nerve signals in your arms flowing.
Switch between desktop, laptop or tablet during the day. Use them for specific tasks (like reading mails on your tablet, development or content creation on your desktop and casual browsing on your laptop.
But I’m pretty sure you’re already familiar with most of my advice.
Thanks for your work, this really looks promising!
One question I keep thinking about. What if I want to still use React on the frontend, does it still make sense to use Phoenix for the backend then or am I throwing all benefits over board then?
Phoenix is still fantastic for JSON and GraphQL apis. In fact, with GraphQL subscriptions, it's extremely well suited because how well we handle WebSockets and pubsub. The community has a robust GraphQL toolkit which works with Phoenix. It has long been 1.0 and has had a book published around it, so quite solid:
http://absinthe-graphql.org
I really like VS Code feature wise, but always come back to Sublime or Vim because I feel there is a lag when typing. In comparison to Sublime, there is no lag when typing (or less lag).
I got it to lag really badly a couple of days ago where I was just sitting waiting for it to complete words. Had to restart, but other than that one time it has felt fine.
It could be some extension, I have had vs code lag really badly in the past (almost a year ago) when I was using the java support extension by Red Hat, I have even had JVM crash while using that configuration. Now I have only a few extensions enabled at a time based on the workspace and do not have performance problems. I have also switched to NetBeans for java development since Apache has taken stewardship of the project. It is a really great and under appreciated IDE :)
What you are referring to is just syntactic sugar. @click is the same as v-on:click and :class is the same as v-bind:class. So you can write this line "less alien" like this:
<th v-for="key in columns" v-on:click="sortBy(key)" v-bind:class="{active: sortKey == key}">
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